Welcome to prayers4today, a place of silence, prayer, and solitude. If you would like your name or need added to my own daily prayers (not shared on this site!), email tshuman@cinci.rr.com I have two other blogs: www.occasionalsightings.blogspot.com (observations); www.lectionaryliturgies.blogspot.com. These prayers may be used in worship settings or newsletters, with attribution please.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Prayer

some day,i would like to learn how to pray:

oh, i can hammer words togetherto make a nice boxfor you to fillwith what i am sure i need: but i falter when i try to climb out of that hole of hopelessness i find myself in;

i can bring youmy scrapbook filledwith all the storiesof the brokeness of the world: but the pages of my dreams, my fears, my fickle faith are out in the trashcan;

i can race to youto tattle onall my friends and neighborsso you will know where all the mud-stainson their lives come from: but in my haste to get to you first, i stumble over the shadowed secrets in my soul.